Monday, July 10, 2017

Skydiving: Jumping out of a Perfectly Good Plane for Fun

The first step is to find a place that will instruct you how to do it and take you up.

One jump will cost about $200 and another $100 if you want a video of your dive.

If you weigh less than 210 pounds dressed you can jump tandem; that's when an instructor (who may be called a Tandem Master) and you are strapped together and the instructor controls the dive and parachute.

The gear to do skydiving is quite expensive-it may cost over $5000-so unless you plan to do it regularly, it is not advised that you purchase a lot of gear.

Your most important gear, of course, is your parachute.

You also need a jumpsuit to protect you from the weather and also from anything you might land on

You need a helmet, padding, and perhaps a spine protector; the most dangerous time is the landing.

Check out this video of a man sky-diving with a 'bat suit'--that is, he had a sort of webbing that helped him soar for a long time before he opened his chute: